I'm happy to announce Vacation Mode! No more need for nation sitting, if you're going to be gone you can simply enable Vacation Mode and your nation will be frozen for a duration of time of your choosing. Vacation Mode is not a "peace mode" and it is not intended to function as one. To use Vacation Mode, you must enter in the length of your absence in days, with a minimum of 14 days to use it.

The Vacation Mode page is available here, or via the Edit Nation page.

Read the full announcement with all of the details on the forum here: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5861-4192015-vacation-mode/

Read the forum announcement here: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5756-4152015-airstrikes-alliance-bank-looting/

Dogfights have been buffed slightly, you should be able to kill more enemy aircraft now

Airstrikes targeting tanks and ships have both been nerfed ever so slightly

Airstrikes targeting soldiers have been buffed to kill more soldiers

Getting ground control now only disables 1/3rd of your enemy's aircraft, instead of 1/2 as it was previously

Lastly, I've disabled alliance bank looting. We're going to see if this is the cause of alliance banks disappearing. If there are no more reports of alliance banks going away, I'll scrutinize that section of code extra heavily until I find the cause. If an alliance bank does get reset after this change, I'll re-enable it and look elsewhere. This is just to debug the game, I'd like to have it back and functional ASAP.

Read the forum announcement here:http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5737-4142015-bug-fix-revenue-log-vip-passes/

- Fixed an important income bug that was causing some people to earn too much money. Some extra turns were simulated, forgive me while I was working out a bug

- I've added a Revenue Log that you can access via your Revenue page. It keeps track of what you get in cash and resources each turn

- I've changed the forum pips, and added two new ones. Wiki contributors now get a pip that says "Wiki Mod", and you can now become a "VIP" with your own fancy pip and access to an exclusive "VIP Lounge" subforum that is only accessible by VIP members

- To become a VIP it costs 1 credit, and your VIP access lasts for the duration of the month. There's a thread in the announcements subforum that you can post in to get your VIP Passes

As a sidenote, the VIP Pass idea is a way to try and support the game financially without relying on nation bonus type donations. I'd like to shift to a more cosmetic money-earning system.

Read the full announcement here: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/5208-3172015-changing-alliance-names/

You can now change alliance names. It costs 3 credits, and you have to be the leader of an alliance to do it.

EDIT: I also updated the forum post with a change to the color stock bonus formula. Visit the forum topic to see the listed changes.

See the full topic here: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/4941-312015-credits/

A small change has been made in how donations work. They're now automatically processed and quantified in the form of credits. They can be redeemed at your convenience, and the same caps on nation bonuses that existed before still exist now. This change does not make the game pay-to-win, or change anything at all, really, other than making things more efficient.